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  • Usage in publication:
    • Horse Creek bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Drake, N.F., 1893, Report on the Colorado coal field of Texas, IN Fourth annual report of the Geological Survey of Texas, 1892: Geological Survey of Texas Annual Report, v. 4, p. 357-444. [Available online from the University of Texas-Austin library: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/dumble/]


Summary:

Pg. 387, 419. Horse Creek bed in Cisco division. Mostly hard massive light-gray limestone, 5 to 15 feet thick, with clay parting in places. Member of Cisco division [Cisco is 2nd from top of 5 Carboniferous divisions of Cummins, 1891]. Underlies Santa Anna bed and overlies Watts Creek bed. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Horse Creek, Coleman Co., Colorado River region, central TX.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 981).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Horse Creek limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Plummer, F.B., and Moore, R.C., 1922, Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of north-central Texas: Journal of Geology, v. 30, no. 1, p. 18-42.


Summary:

Pg. 24, 31; Univ. Texas Bull., no. 2132, p. 177-183 and charts. Horse Creek limestone member of Moran formation (of Cisco group), 5 to 15 feet thick; underlies Santa Anna shale member and overlies Watts Creek shale member of Moran formation in Colorado River Valley, central Texas. [Age is Permian.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 981).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Horse Creek limestone member†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Sellards, E.H., 1933, The pre-Paleozoic and Paleozoic systems in Texas, Part 1, IN Sellards, E.H., Adkins, W.S., and Plummer, F.B, The geology of Texas; Volume 1, Stratigraphy: University of Texas Bulletin, no. 3232, p. 15-238., Published July, 1933


Summary:

Pg. 170. †Horse Creek limestone of Drake is preoccupied (see under Strawn formation) and discarded. Moran formation transferred to Wichita group (Permian).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 981).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Horse Creek formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Cheney, M.G., 1940, Geology of north-central Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 24, no. 1, p. 65-118. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 66 (fig. 1). Horse Creek formation of Moran group. Rank raised to formation in Moran group. Overlies "Dothan" formation; underlies Sedwick formation. Age is Early Permian (Wolfcamp).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1807-1808).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Horse Creek limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1949, Rocks of Permian(?) age in the Colorado River Valley, north-central Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Preliminary Map, OM-80, 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360


Summary:

Sheet 2. Name Gouldbusk is here applied to limestone beds and included thin shale that were called Horse Creek limestone by Drake. Sellards (Univ. Texas Bull., no. 3232, 1933) pointed out duplication by Drake in use of this name, as applied to beds in his Strawn division farther east in Colorado River Valley and to limestone, now considered Permian(?) in age, exposed in Coleman County. Sellards restricted application of Horse Creek to beds in Strawn sequence but did not rename the upper beds, which confusingly have continued to be called Horse Creek (Cheney, 1940; King, 1942, AAPG Bull., v. 26, no. 4).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1807-1808).


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